Personal Liberty Digest – by Sam Rolley

During a press conference on Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the unilateral creation of new “climate action hubs” that will be placed in seven locations around the country.

“On the heels of passage of the farm bill, the administration will take executive action to help farmers, ranchers and rural communities combat climate change and adapt to extreme weather and other damage it causes,” a White House official said in an email ahead of Wednesday’s announcement.   Continue reading “Agriculture Secretary: Government Will Not Wait For Congress, Laws In Implementing Obama Climate Plan”

ABC News

Crews declared a blaze at an underground nuclear repository in southeastern New Mexico snuffed out and determined that there was minimal damage after a truck hauling salt caught fire and prompted an evacuation.

Two mine rescue teams went into the earth at the Carlsbad-area Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where the federal government seals away its low-grade nuclear waste, including plutonium-contaminated clothing and tools. The teams determined the fire was no longer burning and reported the air was clear and safe to breathe, a news release and Susan Scott, a spokeswoman who answered an emergency line, said late Wednesday.   Continue reading “Minimal Damage From NM Nuclear Repository Fire”

The former Tampa police captain is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a man before a movie at the Cobb Grove 16 theater in Wesley Chapel, Fla. in January.New York Daily News

A bond hearing for a retired police captain accused of gunning down a fellow moviegoer last month in Florida will resume on Friday, a judge announced Wednesday.

Curtis Reeves, 71, stood before a Dade City judge and the widow of his alleged victim, 43-year-old Chad Oulson, while family and witnesses to the January shooting emotionally testified for and against Reeves’ possible release on second-degree murder.   Continue reading “Florida judge considering bail for retired police officer accused in deadly movie theater shooting”

photo 2001-enron_political_cartoon_zpse58f6c70.gifDaily Kos – by akadjian

When economists talk about how a market “regulates itself,” what they mean is that markets reach an equilibrium between supply and demand.

This says nothing about whether or not this equilibrium will be a good thing for society. It simply states that if consumers choose what to buy and producers choose what to sell and how to produce it, the market settles on a product distribution and prices.   Continue reading “25 Images of Markets “Regulating Themselves””

PHOTO: Vani Hari, the "food babe" blogger, is petitioning Subway to take a plastic chemical out of its bread.ABC News – by SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES

Subway said today it is removing a chemical used in yoga mats and shoe soles from the bread of it its popular sandwiches after a food blogger got more than 50,000 signatures in a petition drive.

“The complete conversion to have this product out of the bread will be done soon,” Subway said in a statement. The company said the move had nothing to do with the protest and that it was “already in the process of removing azodicarbonamide as part of our bread improvement efforts.”   Continue reading “Subway Takes Chemical Out of Sandwich Bread After Protest”

Anti-War – by Justin Raimondo

Why is the talented journalist Barrett Brown in jail – awaiting trial on charges that could keep him there for one hundred years?

A writer for Vanity Fair, the Guardian, and at one time an unofficial spokesman for the internet pirates known as “Anonymous,” Brown apparently stumbled on the murky world of “private” cyber-security firms and their covert relationship with the US government – and is now paying the consequences.   Continue reading “Free Barrett Brown”

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“The Art of War is Deption” – Sun Tzu

This stuff will not go away.  Ever since I learned how to get six guys together with bows and arrows, start feeding the chickens and step away slowly while releasing arrows straight up into the sky; ever since I learned that one gun in every firing squad carries a blank; ever since I discovered that it took 52 000 rounds of live fire to kill one Viet Cong; ever since I learned that ’Thou Shalt Not Kill” is embedded in the brain of every human being, I have wondered how our ‘rulers’ get people to kill each other.   Continue reading “Complete Demolition of Key “Hero” Story Of The Boston Bombing – The Carlos Arredondo Fraud”

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A little-noticed, almost nonchalant, article in the Columbus Dispatch last week portends substantial environmental and economic mischief.

The article notes that Scotts Company is going forward with plans to commercialize GMO Kentucky bluegrass. Mentioned in passing was that this grass, engineered for resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (AKA Roundup), is not regulated by USDA, and that company employees will begin planting the grass at their homes.   Continue reading “GMO Grass Set for Lawns Across US – No Regulation Needed”

Canada Free Press – by Judi McLeod

If the entire Congress is willing to give President Barack Obama a pass on being a Marxist/Socialist,  why shouldn’t the allegedly right-of-centre Fox News Corp. comfortably do the same thing?

Whitewashing the fact that top Fox guy Bill O’Reilly said of Marxist Obama:  “He is not a bad guy.  I think people misread him”, Fox News followed O’Reilly February 2nd interview by heaping praise on him for “asking the right questions”.

If there was any chance of Obama answering the “right questions”, he would never have shown up for the Fox interview.    Continue reading “Can a Marxist who wants to take down the Free West really be “not a bad guy”?”

Forbes – by Avik Roy

Yesterday, Washington’s official non-partisan bean-counter, the Congressional Budget Office, dropped a bomb. By 2024, says the CBO, Obamacare will reduce the size of the U.S. labor force by 2.5 million full-time-equivalent workers. That’s roughly triple what the CBO had estimated three years ago. Such a sizeable decline in the labor force will have substantial detrimental effects on the U.S. economic and fiscal picture. But the CBO wasn’t responsible for the most amazing thing that happened yesterday. That title belongs to the Obama White House, where Press Secretary Jay Carney claimed that 2.5 million Americans leaving the workforce was a good thing, because they would no longer be “trapped in a job.”   Continue reading “White House: It’s A Good Thing That Obamacare Will Drive 2.5 Million Americans Out Of The Workforce”

Before It’s News

Being a reporter at the Sochi Olympic Games just got even worse.

NBC News’ Richard Engel said that upon arriving in Russia to cover the upcoming event, he was hacked “almost immediately” — and privacy is not something visitors should expect to have.   Continue reading “Hack The Olympics: NBC News’ Richard Engel: My Computers, Cellphone Were Hacked ‘Almost Immediately’ In Sochi”

U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Fair Sentencing Act in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, August 3, 2010. With Obama are (L-R) U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Rep Bobby Scott (D-VA), Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW) - RTR2H0ABThe Daily Caller – by Patrick Howley

Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said that the new Congressional Full Employment Caucus will “give President Obama a number of executive orders that he can sign.”

Jackson Lee added that writing up executive orders “should be our number one agenda.”   Continue reading “Sheila Jackson Lee: Writing executive orders for Obama to sign ‘our number one agenda’”